Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru

Lorraine Nencel is a researcher at the Amsterdam Research Institute for Global Issues and Development Studies and is a member of the editorial board of Critique of Anthropology.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Zooming In On The LocalityScene OneScene TwoThe Conceptual PlotWomen Who Prostitute In Lima, A Nine Part StoryPart One: Engendered Enclosures1: A Historical Narrative Of ProstitutionThe Making Of The History Of ProstitutionThe Call For Regulation (1858-1909)The State Of Affairs And The Need To RegulateThe Regulation Takes Root (1910-1930's)Abolition And Social Change:The Other Solution To The Prostitution ProblemJiron Huatica- Abolition Or Regulation:The Campaign Of The Magazine ¡Ya!(1949)Patterns Of Repetitivity And Gender Meanings2: Read All About It: Gender Meanings And The Written Press A Discursive Explosion: ‘The Tormented Passion Between The Magnate And The Courtesan’(Mis)Representations Of Prostitution And The Prostitutie In The Written MediaThe Counter Discourse: Feminism And Sexual SlaveryFixed Images With No Way Out 3: Prostitution And The Construction Of Men’s Sexual SelvesFrom The Theoretical Lookout PointThe Interviews: The Public Presentation Of The Sexual SelfTalking SexualityLabelling WomenGoing To The ProstitutesThe Prostitute As Sexual Versus The Social ActorConstructing Sexual SelvesPart Two: Day And Night4: Writing Up The Rhythm Of Fieldwork: An Introduction To Part Two. The Rythm Of FieldworkEpistemological And Ethical DissonancdeAn Ethnography Of Fieldwork5: Shaping Identities In First EncountersGetting To Know The Women At Clara’sCrafting EverydaynessShaping Identities6: Between The Stove And The Kitchen TableEveryday Dynamics Of Everyday RelationshipsEl PaquetazoCondom TalksA Few Words Dedicated To The Subject Of SexualityThe Funeral Inventing A Moment Of Closure7: The Fusion Of Truths Into Illusions:The Night Life And Street ProstitutionEl AmbienteNightworkLove And Relationships Under The Moonlight8: Between The Four Walls: Embodying And Enacting The ProstituteThe Crazy Horse: Another Gendered EnclosureMapping Out ProfilesPerforming The ProstituteAn Epilogue9: Gender Enclosures And Gendered IdentitiesA Brief Recapitulation In A Theoretical ModeGendered Enclosures And Gender MeaningsGender Identities: Self-Representations And SubjectivityThe Production Of Fixed Illusions And The Postponement Of ChangeNotes And ReferencesBibliographyIndex

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